Illegible Battle Report

[Longshanks]

Anyone know how to fix this? This happens from time to time, but often enough to be a pain.

[img][IMG]http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/7593/illegible.jpg[/img][/IMG]

[lodilefty]

Looks to me like wrong font being used...

What version?
What screen resolution do you run?

Could you upload a save so I can double check...

[Longshanks]

1.16rc4a w/out quickfixes
I get the same issue no matter which PC I look on. They're varying resolutions, but the coarsest is 1280 x 1024.

[lodilefty]

1.16rc4a w/out quickfixes
I get the same issue no matter which PC I look on. They're varying resolutions, but the coarsest is 1280 x 1024.

oops.

I need the .hst .trn files, not the .rpl

[Longshanks]

here's the files (I hope - had to go to backups and guess which one)

[lodilefty]

Mystery to me, as in my install it's OK:

[ATTACH]16166[/ATTACH]

I'm not an expert on fonts, etc. so hopefully someone out there can suggest why he gets wrong font or size is being displayed

[Longshanks]

the mystery of Windows Font management ... I have the opposite problem in Flash, with super tiny fonts. Adobe sez "see MS, it ain't us".

Thanks for lookin'!

[Philippe]

I'm hardly an authority on these things, but comparing those two screenshots makes me wonder if the two games aren't installed at different resolutions.

Are Longshanks and Lodilefty using the same settings in their configuration files? Perhaps if they compared their configuration file settings it would identify the source of the difference.

[And no, I don't believe that half of the computer problems in the world can be solved by making sure the silly thing is plugged into the wall correctly, but I can never overlook that approach because it did sort of happen to me once...]

[lodilefty]

Good point:
I run at 1280x800, Windowed with borders, Vista

[Pocus]

is your Windows running at 96 DPI?

[Longshanks]

is your Windows running at 96 DPI?

dunno I'll have to look. However, I run games on three different pcs, all running Windows7 and all at pretty high resolutions. This one, for example, is 1280 x 1024 and has the oldest monitor of the bunch and so is probably the least detailed. I have the same problem on all three.

[GraniteStater]

Anyone know how to fix this? This happens from time to time, but often enough to be a pain.

[img][IMG]http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/7593/illegible.jpg[/img][/IMG]

I'll bet dollars to doughnuts it's not typeface or font issues. What I see displayed is a result of the GDI (graphics device interface) call.

Typeface issues would not produce a strikeover.

FWIW, the GDI is a small set of instructions that tell the code being used for visual display to the B drive (yes, your I/O is the B drive) how to draw the display. It's kind of like a driver, except it's not (drivers tell hardware how to behave - the driver(s) for your monitor are separate files).

Just my diagnosis. Could be mistaken.